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slumbersome

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Slumbersome (adj) means marked by sleep; drowsy.

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Marked by sleep; drowsy.

"He was sitting on the shore, his back against a rock, and slipping into such a slumbersome frame of mind that he nearly fell asleep." — Madeline McCully, Derry Folk Tales (2015)

"We can also stipulate that the imagining is done with great energy and concentration whereas the perceiving is slumbersome. It is unclear in what sense the former is supposed to be “more intense” than the latter." — Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness (2015)

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